spreading to different social medias has been very helpful for me because being on twidder has caused to me to tighten up and tone police myself and overthink to sound like PR talk. And it's sadly necessary because twidder's such a hostile place where any rando is looking for a reason to misconstrue what you say through the least charitable reading possible so they can make up a person to be mad at and get boosted by the algorithm.
When I'm elsewhere I feel like I can just talk like a normal person! I'm still on twidder for industry reasons, but now that I have an outlet to be more indulgent elsewhere I feel like I no longer have to post everything on twidder.
Even for silly Fandom stuff I noticed the cape comic Fandom on twidder is a whole other beast compared to that of tumblr's. Twidder's cape fandom is characterized by all the hostile opinion dunking that twidder thrives on, meanwhile you get more earnest transformative indulgent creativity from tumblr because tumblr thrives in Fandom.
I'm in the mental health mindset where "just because I know what someone said about me is wrong and baseless doesn't mean getting a bunch of messages like that wouldn't chip away at me" so I set up boundaries to just not interact with (other than blocking) negativity. Posting Superman comics there is fun! Receiving racist messages because I drew Lois Lane as a brown Asian is not as fun 😑
I offhandedly tweeted once about how unfair it is to expect every queer person to have access to American Queer History. And the result was the tweet going viral and people deciding that I was a sheltered online baby who can't Google things. It didn't matter that I said the government in my country blocks queer websites like AVEN. It didn't matter that I've actually talked to and collaborated with queer activists, met AIDS survivors in person, met trans women in low-income neighborhoods in Indonesia- it's all unfounded assumptions. But man it sucks getting a bunch of comments like that after a while.
